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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Crowdsourcing Microtasks
I have been involved in a number of projects that involved using crowdsourcing tasks. I had missed the conference mentioned , but I this article in Oreilly Radar...
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Computer Vision
Fascinating CACM piece on changes in the direction of computer vision: A Neuromorphic Approach to Computer VisionNeuroscience is beginning to inspire a new generation...
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Birth Season my Effect Food Allergies
This is a surprise finding, could be used to do preventative medicine / forecasting of need for medicines that address this.
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Approaches to Your Company Blog
A good piece on the establishment of a corporate blog in ReadWriteWeb Have now been involved in a number of efforts to establish a company blog. A useful look...
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Intelligent Individuals Don't Make Groups Smarter
An intriguing insight that is applicable to crowds research:" ... an early effort at defining general intelligence in groups suggests that individual brainpower...
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The Edge on Benoit Mandelbrot
The Edge online source has a number of articles by and about IBM researcher and complexity theorist, and economist Benoit Mandelbrot, who recently passed away.
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Tableau 6.0 to Combine Data Sources
New in Tableau 6.0, drag and drop data to combine sources.
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Genetic Programming Book
We examined these methods in the enterprise. Publisher please send me a copy if you would like a full review in this blog. " ... you might like to know that...
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Consumer Hard Drives to be Extinct?
The comment is made in slashdot that the cost per solid state gigabyte will decrease to about fifty US cents by next year. Will this kill the hard drive? In the...
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Creativity and Sadness
Does sadness make us more creative? In Wired/Frontal Cortex. My own informal innovation center observations would say otherwise, but this may depend more strongly on...
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Singularity Operating System
Technical but intriquing piece in CACM Microsoft's experimental operating system. The Singularity System Safe, modern programming languages let Microsoft rethink...
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Loss Aversion
In Wired / Frontal Cortex: On the Allais paradox, or loss aversion in humans. One of the most well known and powerful concepts in neuroeconomics. With some excellent...
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Hyper Social Organization
Paul Gillin on Hyper social organizations:" ... I
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New Ways to Map Influence
In Fastcompany. An idea we also examined. How do you figure out where useful ideas come from? And why they sometimes do not have the influence you might expect...
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Magazines on the iPad
A good piece on early experiments with publishing mags on the iPad. I see this an example of really fundamental change. Are we seeing the beginning of the new...
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More QR Codes in Retail
QR codes are gaining momentum as they increasingly appear on shelf tags, in-store posters and product packagingIn Supermarketnews, more examples of how scan able...
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Visualizing Your Inbox
Another example of Gmail inbox visualization. I have mentioned a few others here. I have built some simple screen scraping methods to look at this via Excel,...
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Econonomics of Mass Collaboration
HBR Podcast with guest Don Tapscott, chairman of nGenera Insight and coauthor of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. on the economics of mass collaboration...
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Tynt - Copy and Paste
Another example of the ability to determine how much your content is being shared. I have always looked at this with mixed feelings ... you want what you saySee...
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